This was my 3rd Grateful Dead show. The Help>Slip>Fire was a real treat and the crowd volume was off the charts. I will never forget that energy.

Excellent show; unfortunately, the whole first set is a Half Step high in pitch, which kills it for me. Thankfully the second set is at true pitch.
Bruce is quoted by Blair Jackson (in his book, "Garcia, An American Life") as having gotten fed up with Jerry's playing over the fall tour. He confronted Jerry about it between sets at this show. He said he started pounding his piano to jack everybody up to get things going. Well, he's certainly playing the piano loudly, without his usual delicacy, but I didn't hear Jerry "not listening, stepping on {everybody else's} solos." He is pretty off on Stagger Lee, and then tries to make up for it by wailing at the end, but his wailing is a bit off too, IMO. But the Bird Song is so exciting. I've had a cassette of the second set for years, it's pretty amazing.

Help-->Slip-->Fire... 'nuff said.

I've only listened to the Help>Slip>Fire so far, so I can't give any kind of opinion on the rest of the show. My rating is for this combination of songs alone. I never even knew they did anything like this. Does anyone know how many other times they played it this way? And did they ever try to squeeze a Scarlet Begonias in there too? This may sound crazy but I kind of always thought it would be cool to hear a Help>Slip>Unbroken Chain>Franklin's. I play it out in my head sometimes when I'm bored, I think it would've worked.

This is a great example of a show that looks good from the song list but doesn't live up to it. This is also a show that illustrates why so many people get so down on Vince. Vince's playing is pedestrian, unimaginative and boring, (he sounds like a carnival organist during Fire) and his licks are distracting and weak. After having such a great run of keyboard players, from TC to Keith to Brent (Pigpen of course was in a league by himself and was more of a singer), I was always surprised that the band could not find a better keyboard player than him to join the group.

Yay! Thanks for the recent update! This show is now GREAT sounding SBD! Fun vibe. Help/Slip/Fire is a special feature - but then along comes Prophet to take the wind out of the sails.

Help On The Way-> Slipknot!-> Fire On The Mountain
I was a "taper" in attendance at this show, and after seeing the band play live approximately 200 times. The big things for me at shows was when the band broke there routine.....I could not begin to guess how many times they played and I saw.... help>slip>franklins open up a second set.... this night though they just wanted to make it special it had been a cool run of shows with some great weather...the set opened with help>slip>fire....I will always remember this one and if you have an audience tape you can feel the excitement from the crowd. Nice.